Workshops

Micropayments, Microfinance and Crowdfunding

Egan 340 (3rd Floor)

Can you or your organization actually make enough money from $5 or $10 payments from your website's audience to actually function? Does getting sponsors to pay for your freelance work make good financial sense? This workshop will talk about the ups-and-downs of trying to fund your work through online micropayments, ads and donations. About the presenter: Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia staff, Open Media Boston

Mastering Social Media and the Internet

Curry Student Center 342 (3rd Floor)

This workshop will give you a jargon-free introduction to one of social media's most important functions - helping you to promote your work to the growing online audience using Facebook, Twitter and other social media services. Presenters: Rob Watson, Massachusetts Cultural Council Social Media Communication Coordinator & Jeanne Harnois, National Writers Union

Envisioning a Just Media Future

Egan 440 (4th Floor)

The Boston Action Tank is a collaborative of local media and communication workers who are committed to social change and progressive communications. Over the last 18 months the group has been developing and piloting tools to jumpstart conversations and develop strategies that ensure community needs are heard a rapidly changing media world. This session is an introduction to our processes of collective visioning and introduce participants to a number of other tools we have to over to work with groups.

The Revolution Will Be Personalized

Hayden Hall 321 (3rd Floor)

This workshop will provide high level introductions to computer systems that use large amounts of data from individuals to make predictions about everything from individual preferences to national elections. Next, will be a brief overview topics from developmental psychology relating to the effects of information consumption over time. The presentation will conclude with a model for cooperative businesses which uses these emerging technologies to make employment more flexible.

Constituent Relationship Management for Civic Sector (CiviCRM) - Beginners, Intermediate

Curry Student Center 340 (3rd Floor)

Web-based, Free and Open Source Software alternative for Social Justice organizations with a huge development community and campaign-focused design. This training will introduce grassroots activists to this growing web-based platform for managing their relationships with donors, members, volunteers, and their community at large while preserving fundamental organizing strategies.

Constituent Relationship Management for Civic Sector (CiviCRM) - Intermediate, Expert

Curry Student Center 340 (3rd Floor)

Web-based, Free and Open Source Software alternative for Social Justice organizations with a huge development community and campaign-focused design. This training will introduce grassroots activists to this growing web-based platform for managing their relationships with donors, members, volunteers, and their community at large while preserving fundamental organizing strategies.

US Social Forum 2010

Egan 340 (3rd Floor)

The workshop goal is to orient participants to the US Social Forum process, with a focus on the Information, Communications, and Technology working group.

Countering Military Recruitment Using Open Source Mapping Tools

Curry Student Center 340 (3rd Floor)

Peacework co-editor Sam Diener will discuss how we obtained the data from the military. Katherine Fisher will discuss selecting open source mapping tools and the challenges and joys therein. We will demonstrate some of the maps we've created and can create. We'll discuss ways we could go from here to present and help visitors access these data and these maps on the web.

Google Apps - An Instant Communications Infrastructure for Your Group or Nonprofit

Egan Main Auditorium

This workshop aims to give participants all the info they need to set up their own email, calendar, documents, and intranet for their organization. We will:

• walk through the Google Apps sign up and registration process
• set up a sample organization for: email, calendar, and intranet
• go over best practices and real life use cases that we at Root Cause have experience

Creators on Creative Rights - Who Owns Our Work?

Curry Student Center 342 (3rd Floor)

This roundtable will feature creators from various industries sharing their experiences with keeping control of rights to their work in a time when many employers expect people to sell all rights to their works in all media for low one-time payments. About the panel: Led by Roberto Mighty (new media producer and director of prime time programs and documentaries) & David Goodman (Open Media Boston and I.B.I.S. Radio)